Founding Member, Forty Year Member, Treasurer 1971-1972,Director 1969-1970,Symposium Local
Arrangements Chair 1959.
�
Paul A.RedheadMedard W.WelchAward
Lewis W. HullAVS President 1975
1975
Forty Year Member,Honorary Member 1981,Clerk 1970-1971, Trustee, 1978-1981.Dorothy Hoffman was awonderfully friendly ladywith an iron will. She waselected AVS Clerk in1969 in, as she wouldput it, a two-man race(she derived the term“chair person” with thecomment that she was nota piece of furniture. Aftertwo years serving as Clerkshe was nominated asPresident-Elect in anothertwo man race. She left alarge bequest for the cre-ation of student awards.
�
Homer D.HagstrumMedard W.WelchAward
Dorothy M. HoffmanAVS President 1974
1974
Forty Year Member,Honorary Member 1981,Treasurer, 1984-1998,Director 1972-1973,
Symposium Program Chair1972, Publications Chair1970-1973, Vacuum
Technology Division Chair1980-1981, TechnicalDirector 1992-1998.
�
LeslieHolland
Medard W.WelchAward
N. Rey WhettenAVS President 1976
1976
Honorary Member 1995,Director, 1970-1973,Publications Chair 1974-1975, Thin Film Division
Chair 1968.
�
Charles B.Duke
Medard W.WelchAward
Richard W. HoffmanAVS President 1977
1977
Forty Year Member,Honorary Member 1981,Fellow 2000, Director,1972-1975, SymposiumProgram Chair 1974,
Education Committee Chair1970-1973, Vacuum
Technology Division Chair1976-1977.
�
Georg H.Hass
Medard W.WelchAward
�
Pierre A.AugerGaede-LangmuirAward
Leonard C. BeavisAVS President 1978
1978
Forty Year Member,Honorary Member 1982,Fellow 1994, Director
1973-1976, Trustee 2003-2005, Medard W. WelchAward 1977, PublicationsChair 1977-1980, SurfaceScience Division Chair1972, Co-founder (withWilliam E. Spicer) of theElectronic Materials andProcessing Division. Dukeplayed a major role inAVS becoming a full member of AIP.
�
Gert EhrlichMedard W.WelchAward
Charles B. DukeAVS President 1979
1979
Honorary Member 1989,Director, 1977-1980,
Symposium Program Chair1976, Publications Chair1979-1984, Albert Nerken
Award 1985.Following Vossen’s deaththe John L. VossenMemorial Award wasestablished to recognizeand encourage the devel-opment of high school sci-ence experiments in theareas of interest to AVS.
�
ChristopherR. BrundlePeter MarkMemorialAward
�
DanielAlpertGaede-LangmuirAward
John L. VossenAVS President 1980
1980
Forty Year Member,Honorary Member 1998,Fellow 1993, Director,1978-1979, Medard W.Welch Award 1985,
Symposium Program Chair1986, Surface ScienceDivision Chair 1977, IUVSTA President 1992-1995, Awards Chair2007. The Theodore E.Madey Award for SurfaceScience and ScientificExchange was started
in 2011.
�
Lawrence L.KazmerskiPeter MarkMemorialAward
�
Harrison E.FarnsworthMedard W.WelchAward
Theodore E. MadeyAVS President 1981
1981
Director 1980-1981,Trustee 1987, SymposiumProgram Chair 1980, ThinFilm Division Chair 1979.After his sudden and pre-mature death, the John A.Thornton Memorial Award
was established.
�
Alfred H.SommerGaede-LangmuirAward
�
Charles W.McGeePeter MarkMemorialAward
John A. ThorntonAVS President 1982
1982
Forty Year Member,Director 1977-1978,Trustee 1979-1982,Gaede-Langmuir Award1988, Surface ScienceDivision Chair 1974,Electronic Materials andProcessing Division Chair
1982.
�
James ChadiPeter MarkMemorialAward
�
H. H.Weider
Medard W.WelchAward
John R. ArthurAVS President 1983
1983
� William E. Spicer,Co-founder (withCharles B. Duke) of theElectronic Materialsand ProcessingDivision, BoD 1979-1980, Trustee 1981-1983, Welch Award1984, Fellow 1994.
� Presentation
of the Gaede
-Langmuir
Award to Da
niel Alpert at
the AVS 27th
Annual
Symposium D
etroit, Michig
an, October 1
980.
(L to R) Doro
thy M. Hoffm
an, Daniel Al
pert.
� The Scholarship and AwardsCommittee was formed in 1975 toensure that all Society awards weremade without BoD influence. John Yates was one of the initialmembers and was Chair in 1978.In 1994 he was given the WelchAward. First Recipient of theTheodore M. Madey Award.
� Presentation of the WelchMedal to Charles B. Duke at the AVS 24thAnnual Symposium Boston, Masachusetts,November 1977. (L to R) Eric Kay, Charles B.
Duke, Richard W. Hoffman.
� Speakers at a special 30thanniversary session on the History ofVacuum Science and technologyorganized by W.C. Brown at the30th National Symposium inBoston, November, 1983.
� Presentation of the Welch Award to Harrison E.Farnsworth at the AVS 28th Annual Symposium,Anaheim, California, November 1981. (L to R)Susan D. Allen, Theodore E. Madey, Harrison E.
Farnsworth, John R. Arthur, Jr.
Reenactment of the Magd
eburg Hemispheres Expe
riment for the AVS 30th
Annual
Symposium, Boston, Mas
sachusetts, November 19
83. � Presentation of AVSHonorary Membership to Leonard C. Beavis at theAVS 28th Annual Symposium Anaheim, California,November 1981. (L to R) Leonard C. Beavis, WilliamD. Westwood, William E. Spicer, Susan D. Allen,Theodore E. Madey, John R. Arthur, Jr.
�
Presentationof WelchMedal toLeslie Holland, AVS 23rdAnnual Symposium, Chicago, Illinois,September 1976. (L to R) Leslie Holland, N. Rey Whetten, AVS President.
� Gaede-Langmuir Award Plaque.
�
Closeup of the Magdeburghemispheres specially designed and built forthe re-enactment at the 30th anniversary in Boston, together withsome of the organizers. (L to R) John J. Sullivan, Lawrence Bell of Boston’sMuseum of Science, and Theodore E. Madey.
� BoD Meeting, AVS 21st Annual Symposium, Anaheim, California, October 1974. Back Row (L to R)
Marsbed H. Hablanian, Charles B. Duke, Peter Mark, Leonard C. Beavis, Eric Kay. Front Row (L to R)
J. Roger Young, Lewis W. Hull, Dorothy M. Hoffman, N. Rey Whetten, Jack H. Singleton, Maurice H.
Francombe. Peter Mark was the fourth JVST Editor, serving from 1975 until his untimely death in 1979.
Roger Young was AVS Treasurer, 1973 to 1983.
� AVS 23rd Symposium, Chicago, Illino
is, October 1976. (Clockwise from L):
Patricia Bro
(Welch’s daughter), Luther E. Preuss, M
edard W. Welch, Kenneth C. D. Hickm
an, Mrs. Leslie
Holland, Leslie Holland, Homer D. Hag
strum, Paul A. Redhead, Kenneth Bro (W
elch’s son-in-
law), Gottfried K. Wehner. Medard We
lch provided the
funds for the Welch Medal, and was a
ccompanied by his
daughter and son-in-law. Luther Preuss w
as deeply involved
in the original negotiations between W
elch and the AVS,
in establishing the award. Welch recipi
ents present were:
Hickman (1972), Holland (1976), Hag
strum (1974),
Redhead (1975), and Wehner (1971)
.
� Marion Churchilljoined the AVS staff asMeeting Manager, priorto the 1981 AnnualSymposium. Churchillretired in 2000.
Presentation of the Welch Medal to Gert Ehrlich at the AVS 26th Annual Symposium, New York, New York, October 1979. (L to R) Dorothy M.Hoffman, Gert Ehrlich, Charles B. Duke. �
� Gerald Lukovskybecame JVST Editorin 1980, and in 1983was appointed Editor-in Chief after the
Journal was published in two separateseries, A and B. Gerry retired as JVSTEditor in 2010.
� In May 1979, Marcia Schlissel
was hired to handle the increasing
course registration. Marcia
brought a new persona to AVS;
outside of AVS, she was a singer
in a band. In 1990 she left to
pursue this second career.
� Presentation ofthe first Peter Mark Awardto Christopher R. Brundle at the AVS27th Annual Symposium Detroit, Michigan, October 1980. (L to R) John L. Vossen, President, Christopher R. Brundle, Hans Mark (Peter's brother).
Celebrating 60 Years of Science & Technology • Years 1974-1983